🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Huara Geoglyph Field
Late Intermediate Tarapaca phase · Tarapaca and Arica caravan cultures
120+ Huara pampa geoglyphs (800-1400 CE) featuring unique 5-m footprint effigies on salar silt.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Temple complex
Debre Damo Monastery
Aksumite to Zagwe (6th c–12th c; core 6th c Nine Saints) · Ethiopian Orthodox (Aksumite Christian) monastic
Amba-top monastery accessible only by 15 m leather rope, founded 6th c by Nine Saint Aregawi on precipice with Aksumite wood-monkey-head church.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Kordlar Tepe
Iron Age I–III (1500–600 BCE) · Iron Age Urmia
Iron Age I–III (1500–600 BCE) tell of Iron Age Urmia in West Azerbaijan, Lake Urmia SE (c.1300 BCE).
🇿🇦 South Africa · Cave
Klasies River Cave 1A Howiesons Poort Layer
Upper Palaeolithic (35000–12000 BP) · Upper Palaeolithic
Klasies River Cave 1A Howiesons Poort Layer in Eastern Cape, Klasies River, South Africa is a Upper Palaeolithic (35000–12000 BP) cave attributed to Upper Palaeolithic.
🇩🇪 Germany · Submerged site
Rungholt Submerged Wadden Church Foundations
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–300 CE) · Bronze Age–Classical
Rungholt Submerged Wadden Church Foundations in Schleswig-Holstein, Rungholt, Germany is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–300 CE) submerged city attributed to Bronze Age–Classical.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Akbeit Kurgan (Akmola Tasmola-Ridge Ancestor)
Tasmola (Early Saka) · Northern Tasmola network
Northern Tasmola horseshoe kurgan 55 km south of Astana: 42-m mound with 18-m mustache avenue to solstice.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Antirhodos Island Submerged Palace of Cleopatra
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–300 CE) · Bronze Age–Classical
Antirhodos Island Submerged Palace of Cleopatra in Alexandria, Eastern Harbour, Egypt is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–300 CE) submerged city attributed to Bronze Age–Classical.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Belevi Mausoleum — Ephesus Royal Tomb
Hellenistic (Lysimachus to Seleucid) · Hellenistic Macedonian-Anatolian
29-m Diadochi mausoleum 14 km NE Ephesus for Lysimachus/Antiochus II with 28 columns and griffin coffers, 301–246 BCE.
🇳🇦 Namibia · Rock art
Apollo 11 Cave
Later Stone Age (Upper Palaeolithic 27 ka) to Historical (27 ka–1400 CE) · San ancestors (Early LSA humans; Howieson's Poort industry)
Cave yielding 27,500 BCE portable painted plaquettes – among world's oldest art, named for 1969 moon landing excavation.
🇮🇳 India · Tell
Nagda
Malwa Chalcolithic 1700–1400 BCE → Avanti Early Historic 700–500 BCE · Malwa Chalcolithic → Avanti (Ujjain) Early Historical
Malwa hillock at Nagda Junction — Banerjee/B.B. Lal's Malwa type (round huts, buff ware, 1.6 km NW of station).
🇨🇴 Colombia · Buried city
Sierra Nevada — Pueblito Chengue–Buritaca Second Sector (Tayrona)
Late Intermediate to Contact (c.700 – 1603 CE) · Tayrona (Tairona)
Tayrona Buritaca ridge 380 m — 120 stone terraces with canals and causeway to Chengue fishery port, 700–1600 CE, coast-sierra twin to Teyuna.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Tumulus
Kul-Oba Kurgan – Royal Scythian Tumulus
Iron Age, Scythian–Bosporan hybrid (4th c. BCE) · Crimean Scythian elite under Bosporan Greek suzerainty
4th-c. BCE 19-m Crimean Scythian–Greek royal tomb—vaulted ashlar under steppe mound.
🇾🇪 Yemen · Submerged site
Qana – Incense Harbour of Hadramawt, Bir Ali
South Arabian to Himyarite (c. 500 BCE – 630 CE) · Hadrami / Himyarite
Hadrami sea harbour rock-cut channel 600 m at –0.5 m off Bir Ali – mole with incense altars.
🇨🇳 China · Ancient village
Qujialing
Qujialing 3400–2600 BCE → Shijiahe 2600–2300 → Longshan · Qujialing culture (Middle Yangzi Chalcolithic) → Shijiahe
Type-site for Qujialing culture (c.3400–2600 BCE) on the Qujialing–Shijiahe plateau north of Chang Lake in Jianghan Plain — 263 ha palisaded terrace (eastern plateau 160 m height) excavated 1955–57…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Tilmen Höyük (Tilmen Palace Mound West Terrace)
Late Chalcolithic through Neo-Hittite (4000–700 BCE) · Amanos piedmont → Yamhad (Alalakh) → Hittite → Neo-Hittite
Tilmen Höyük (Tilmen Palace Mound West Terrace) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Gaziantep Province, İslahiye District, Amanos foothills, Turkey — Amanos gateway kingdom capital with MBA…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Akoris — Northern Quarry Valley Harbour at Tihna North
Ptolemaic to Coptic (300 BCE – 500 CE) · Graeco-Roman Egyptian
Northern quarry valley of Akoris — slipway and wadi canal buried 2–4 m for 3-ton block export north.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Temple complex
Gebel Barkal Temple B500 Terrace Annex — Southern Extension
New Kingdom-Napatan (1500-500 BCE) · Napatan
Gebel Barkal Temple B500 Terrace Annex — Southern Extension in Northern State, Karima, Sudan is a New Kingdom-Napatan (1500-500 BCE) temple complex attributed to Napatan.
🇳🇦 Namibia · Rock art
Twyfelfontein Rock Engraving Panel West 7
Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) · Multi-period rock art
Twyfelfontein Rock Engraving Panel West 7 in Erongo, Twyfelfontein, Namibia is a Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) rock art attributed to Multi-period rock art.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Euhemeria — Qasr el-Banat Buried Town at Fayum North-Central (Kasr Banat) — v2
Ptolemaic to Late Roman (305 BCE – 350 CE) · Greco-Roman Fayum
North-central Fayum grain port Euhemeria 1–2 m buried at Qasr el-Banat — double Harpocrates temple at –1 m and harbour basin 100×80 m.
🇵🇱 Poland · Ancient village
Biskupin Iron Age Lake Fort
Early Iron Age, Lusatian culture Hallstatt C · Lusatian (Lausitz) culture Hallstatt-period farmers
740 BCE Lusatian lake-fort—106 identical street-grid houses on Lake Biskupin islet.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Temple complex
Kerma Defuffa Western Annex Courtyard — Western Terrace
Middle Bronze Age (2500-1500 BCE) · Kerma Culture
Kerma Defuffa Western Annex Courtyard — Western Terrace in Northern State, Kerma, Sudan is a Middle Bronze Age (2500-1500 BCE) temple complex attributed to Kerma Culture.
🇰🇪 Kenya · Ancient city
Gede Ruins (Gedi)
Swahili (Middle to Late Swahili 1200–1650 CE) · Swahili (Arab-African Bantu + Shirazi myth; Mijikenda fringe)
Abandoned 3 km-walled Swahili coral city in coastal forest with Great Mosque, 45-room Palace with Ming porcelain insets and planned grid.
🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient village
Lerna House of Tiles Annex Courtyard — Eastern Outlier
Early Bronze Age (3200-2000 BCE) · Early Helladic
Lerna House of Tiles Annex Courtyard — Eastern Outlier in Peloponnese, Argolis, Greece is a Early Bronze Age (3200-2000 BCE) ancient village attributed to Early Helladic.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Tripuri
Chalcolithic → NBPW 600 BCE → Gupta 350–550 CE → Kalachuri 850–1300 CE · Kalachuri-Chedi
Narmada capital Tripuri at Tewar — 16 m Chalcolithic to Kalachuri–Chedi temple city (Haihayas, 1042 inscr.).